Wildlife experts voiced relief on Tuesday that 50 000 Olive Ridley turtles crawled up an eastern Indian beach this week to lay eggs, after the endangered animals missed nesting last year.
Authorities have released a tape of emergency calls made during last month’s deadly Chicago club stampede, a haunting compilation with screaming clubgoers begging for their lives and several complaining of locked doors.
South African President Thabo Mbeki spoke to his French and British counterparts about Iraq on Monday night, presidential representative Bheki Khumalo said in Pretoria.
A section of the Liquor Act prohibiting striptease dancing on licensed premises was struck down by the Constitutional Court on Tuesday.
The draft National Environmental Management Biodiversity Bill will go to Cabinet within the next fortnight, the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism said on Tuesday.
A group of Masai women are to bring a civil case against the British army for alleged rapes, which took place close to army training grounds in Samburu, northern Kenya, over a 25-year period.
The most unpopular man in China made his last speech yesterday before he finally steps off the stage nearly 14 years after he ordered the army to suppress the students in Tiananmen Square.
Defence lawyers in the treason trial of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai finished on Monday their cross-examination of the key state witness, who told the court the trial had wrecked his marriage.
The department of communications will study the market over the next year to test the feasibility of introducing a fourth cellular operator for South Africa.
The rand was steady against major currencies just before noon on Tuesday in very quiet trade. Currency traders said that there was no interest in the market and saw the rand trading in a similar range to Monday for the rest of the day.